Night Must Fall
14th Berlin International Film Festival – In Competition
Q&A: Three-time Emmy award winning actress Lady Kulukundis CBE Susan Hampshire will join BBC Arts’ Critic Phillip Bergson. Susan has appeared in over 50 films and television series and began her acting career over 60 years ago. A CBE for services to drama and charity, we are thrilled to welcome her to the stage to discuss her role in ‘Night Must Fall’, collaboration with director Karel Reisz, and her career beyond.
Reisz re-teamed with Finney who plays s charismatic psychopath who worms his way into the lives of a widow and her daughter. What it adds up to is a cerebral suspense thriller that, at a time of the blood splatters of PSYCHO, offered a more internalised, typically New Wave take on what is that makes us all tick.
“It’s a remarkable, harrowingly wretched, feeble final image, from a vastly underrated shocker.” – Paul Mavis, Movies&Drinks.com
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Screening as part of The Chiswick Cinema exclusive ‘THE IMAGE SPEAKS: A KAREL REISZ RETROSPECTIVE’ season exploring four early works by the British Free Cinema pioneer.
Programmed in association with the Reisz family and on select screenings in partnership with Park Circus. Season artwork by Beth Morris.
https://www.chiswickcinema.co.uk/karelreisz/
Q&A: Three-time Emmy award winning actress Lady Kulukundis CBE Susan Hampshire will join BBC Arts’ Critic Phillip Bergson. Susan has appeared in over 50 films and television series and began her acting career over 60 years ago. A CBE for services to drama and charity, we are thrilled to welcome her to the stage to discuss her role in ‘Night Must Fall’, collaboration with director Karel Reisz, and her career beyond.
Reisz re-teamed with Finney who plays s charismatic psychopath who worms his way into the lives of a widow and her daughter. What it adds up to is a cerebral suspense thriller that, at a time of the blood splatters of PSYCHO, offered a more internalised, typically New Wave take on what is that makes us all tick.
“It’s a remarkable, harrowingly wretched, feeble final image, from a vastly underrated shocker.” – Paul Mavis, Movies&Drinks.com
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Screening as part of The Chiswick Cinema exclusive ‘THE IMAGE SPEAKS: A KAREL REISZ RETROSPECTIVE’ season exploring four early works by the British Free Cinema pioneer.
Programmed in association with the Reisz family and on select screenings in partnership with Park Circus. Season artwork by Beth Morris.
https://www.chiswickcinema.co.uk/karelreisz/
Cast
Sheila Hancock • Albert Finney • Susan Hampshire • Mona Washbourne
Director
Karel Reisz
Running Time
105 minutes